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DJ_Switch said:
I'll admit I'm not so keen on the first 2.

The third image is excellent. Very strong image.
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She was incredibly awkward in front of the camera for the majority of the shoot (loosened up towards the end) but unfortunately that's shown through in a few of the shots. It's okay, I'm 17 and have only been doing this for a year really, and my first shoot was April so I'm still learning :)
 
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Bambi's course over at creative live maybe helpful.
One thing that has always stuck in my mind is the saying "the camera looks both ways".

If she was particularly awkward in front of a camera, then it's likely you were unless you made a conscious effort to get out of that funk.
Our emotions often mirror the peoples around us, so even if they start off awkward, if you remain relaxed and chatty, they will mirror you. Once they are in a happy place.. it's easy.
 
^^^ the top left of Ksanti's photos also has a very nervous bokeh with strong outlining. I only say this because I know Ksanti loves Bokeh but he should realise quality is more important than quantity. That bokeh is worse than can be achieved from a variable aperture kit lens on a crop body @f/5.6



The one on thr top right is much smoother, different lens?
 
DP: Same lens (Sigma 85) , different conditions is all. Loads of leaves glinting with with a load of specular highlights will always give worse bokeh than overcast trees 100ft off with clouds behind I guess. I actually like the bokeh in the one on the left. On the far left of the image it's distracting, granted but I like that there's still texture to it in the middle background. If it gets bad it's a very small job to fix it in post, but in that one I don't mind it, personally. She was really happy with it in any case. I appreciate Bokeh is the quality not the quantity, but the quantity is half the aesthetic battle and I can't afford a viable 85L setup for the moment (1DSx or 5D3) so I can deal with it. And I'm referrring to the quality of the 85L bokeh, not the quantity that 1.2 provides, before you jump down my throat.

An Exception: Yeah I know that that's all true regarding awkwardness, but I was pretty relaxed the whole way through and like I said, towards the end she started to chill out. Some people just are awkward in front of the camera, while you can do you best as a photographer to make them comfortable, some people will always find it difficult to relax. She'd very much gone into it saying she's awkward in front of the camera and determined to follow through on that, I imagine if we shot again we'd come closer to picking up where we left off and things would go much smoother

We're good friends in real life and we were chilled out for most of the day, but I need to find ways to get people to pose when they can't do it naturally - shooting with Clarissa (I'm sure some of you remember the shots) she was astoundingly comfortable; but as it was my first shoot I didn't really know how much to appreciate that.

Could you link me to that course? Sounds interesting in any case and it'd be great to have some pointers for next time.
 
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